Learning from Sony: an external perspective

2006-02-01

Dan Kaminsky

DoxPara Research, USA

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Dan Kaminsky takes a long hard look at the reaction (or lack thereof) of the AV industry to the Sony rootkit incident and assesses the consequences.

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